background: it has been known that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) is involved in neural survival and long term memory (ltm). here we hypothesized that bdnf as a potent neurotrophic factor might modulate amnestic effect induced by morphine. objectives: the aim of this study was to examine whether infusion of exogenous bdnf in the ca1 regions of the dorsal hippocampi could ameliorate me...

introduction: olibanum improves memory in different models of learning. however, the effect of olibanum on models of alzheimer’s disease has been less studied. in the present study, the effect of olibanum on memory in normal rats and in a rat model of alzheimer disease induced by intracerebroventricular injections of streptozotocin was evaluated. methods: rats received an aqueous extract of oli...

Introduction: Previous studies have demonstrated that the &beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol impairs fear memory reconsolidation in experimental animals. There are experimental parameters such as the age and the strength of memory that can interact with pharmacological manipulations of memory reconsolidation. In this study, we investigated the ability of the age and the strength o...

nowadays, it is common to find optimal point of the dynamic problem; dynamic problems whose optimal point changes over time require algorithms which dynamically adapt the search space instability. in the most of them, the exploitation of some information from the past allows to quickly adapt after an environmental change (some optimal points change). this is the idea underlining the use of memo...

background and objective: temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) usually leads to memory deficit. in this study, we tried to assess the effect of withania somnifera extract on the impaired learning and memory in the intrahippocampal kainate model of tle in the rat. materials & methods: male rats (n=32) were divided into sham, extract+sham, kainite, and kainite+extract. for induction of epilepsy, uni...